The Federal Government’s Complicated Relationship with Telehealth
As part of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, or PHE, which officially ended earlier this month, the federal government gave healthcare providers considerable flexibility to
As part of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, or PHE, which officially ended earlier this month, the federal government gave healthcare providers considerable flexibility to
Processes and regulations still need to play catch-up, however. Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to greatly reduce the cost of healthcare. To explain, let’s go back
The future of telehealth does, in fact, appear to be murky. Is telehealth experiencing a post-COVID-19 hangover? That’s how one healthcare executive recently labeled the
Lawsuits, congressional attention, and recent reports are all focused on the same unifying topic. This probably comes as no surprise to read, but during the
Providers and patients indicate that telehealth and substance use disorder treatment are priority issues. With Election Day now behind us and Congress returning, the switch
A close look at three extrapolation case histories. When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit in 2020, many folks assumed that it would not be an
Aside from fraud and abuse associated with telehealth, the future of this technology is astonishingly bright and innovative. Responding to COVID-19, the Department of Health
It started out as a $4 trillion infrastructure package; but nearly a year and a half later, Biden’s Build Back Better initiative is now a
Two years later, there are some changes to telehealth. We all remember the day the locks were removed for telehealth to come flooding through the
Checking in on telehealth who is here to stay. Let’s do a check-up on telehealth. The prognosis: based on recent data, the use of telehealth
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